3 min read · 21 Jun 2024
Anish Kapoor’s show ”Monadic Singularity” will feature a monumental sculpture last seen in the grounds of Versailles in 2015. Copyright the artist.
The week after Art Basel was overshadowed by the death of esteemed New York dealer Barbara Gladstone. Among the tributes was a particularly personal one by fellow New York dealer, Anton Kern. He posted on social media: “Barbara gave me my first gallery job in New York, and for that I am forever thankful. With the knowledge I learned from her I was able to open my own gallery two years after joining her team. I will miss her and everything she taught me.”
New York: veteran dealer Barbara Gladstone, who championed artists ranging from the Keith Haring estate to Carrie Mae Weems, died aged 89. “There’s no formula. I trust my instincts,” Gladstone told the Wall Street Journal in 2011.
Miami: A monumental work by Richard Serrawill be housed in a new sculpture park in Florida. The Long Leaf Art Park is founded by the hedge-funder Bruce Berkowitz, The Art Newspaper reports.
Museum: Works by Alice Neel and Tracey Emin feature prominently in the collector Christian Levett’s new Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, which opens on June 21 in the south of France.
Liverpool: Anish Kapoor’s monumental red PVC sculpture, which was originally unveiled in Versailles, will get its UK debut in the artist’s solo show marking the centenary of Liverpool Cathedral.
Paris: A man has been convicted for stealing a work that Banksy painted on the back of a parking sign near the Centre Pompidou.
London: Yayoi Kusama’s mini "mirror room", Phantom Polka Dots of Fate, Ordained by Heaven, Were the Greatest Gift Ever for Me, went on display at Sotheby’s ahead of a novel auction through sealed bids on June 27.
Shows: Nadya Tolokonnikova, a founder member of Pussy Riot, opens “Rage” her first museum show at OK Linz in Austria.
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Paris: The Centre Pompidou has selected architects Moreau Kusunoki and Frida Escobedo Studio to complete the renovation of its high-tech building, which is due to be completed by 2030.
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"‘You have two choices: to get down into deep, deep depression, or to allow yourself to experience rage. Rage has always given me a lot of energy to produce art” says Nadya Tolokonnikova, a founder member of Pussy Riot, as her first museum show opens at OK Linz in Austria."
- Vogue